At the NokiaWorld conference in London, Nokia was strangely quiet about its …

One of the oddest things about the keynote presentations during the NokiaWorld conference was the conspicuous absence of commentary about MeeGo, the Linux-based mobile platform that is expected to eventually displace Symbian as the dominant operating system on Nokia's high-end products. During the major product announcements on the opening day of the conference, the only time that a Nokia executive mentioned MeeGo was to say that there would be no MeeGo-based products announced this week.

Virtually all of the company's remarks about platform strategy related directly to Symbian. It's obvious that Symbian still has a major role to play in Nokia's business, but it's not entirely clear yet how Nokia is going to move forward with its MeeGo plan. Earlier this year, Nokia executives said that MeeGo is the future of the company's premium N-series products and that the recently-launched N8 would possibly be the last phone in that line to ship with Symbian. At the LinuxCon event in San Francisco last month, the company reiterated its commitment to MeeGo and confirmed that it will be delivering its first MeeGo device this year.

Despite the profound significance of the seemingly imminent transition to MeeGo for high-end products, Nokia's top leaders didn't seem to have much to say about it during the NokiaWorld keynotes. I raised this issue when I discussed Nokia's software plans with Rich Green, the company's new CTO. When I asked him if Nokia's commitment to MeeGo has changed, his response was unambiguous: MeeGo is "critically important" to Nokia's smartphone business. He says that Nokia's success in the high-end smartphone market will depend on the company's ability to deliver a more desktop-like mobile platform that is better-suited as a rival for iOS and Android. He sees MeeGo as Nokia's answer for that segment of the market, but he also believes that it could eventually play an even broader role on Nokia's product lineup in the future when hardware advancements make it practical to bring MeeGo to lower-end devices.

Green is a fresh hire for Nokia. He was previously the executive vice president of software at Sun, but resigned from that position in 2008. Much like Nokia's new Microsoft-veteran CEO, Green brings a background in software to a key spot in Nokia's new leadership structure. Green aims to help the company accelerate its software strategy as it continues to undertake what he describes as a transition from being an embedded device company to being a software, platform, and services company.

The reason why MeeGo didn't figure prominently in Nokia's announcements during the event, he explained, is because the company isn't ready to disclose specific MeeGo product plans yet. He says that Nokia is becoming more disciplined about how it presents its roadmap and articulates its product strategy. The company will only talk about products that are ready to ship, rather than products that are in the pipeline. The goal of NokiaWorld, he contends, was to show what Nokia is ready to deliver today. He is concerned that disclosing too much information in advance would cause frustration among consumers and technology enthusiasts when plans change later in the product development cycle.

The Symbian strategy

Green says that Symbian is important to Nokia because it is easier to scale down to the kind of low-cost devices that the company is shipping in large volume. Nokia has a strong market (albeit, one with slim margins) in the developing world, where mobile technology is seeing explosive growth and consumers tend to use a phone device as their primary means of accessing the Internet.

Most of Nokia's devices that are targeted at that market today use the s40 platform, which is somewhere between a smartphone and feature phone operating system. As Nokia continues to aggressively bring down the cost of its budget products, we could potentially see a lot more conventional Symbian devices moving into that space. Symbian seems like a less compelling option, however, for modern multimedia and business smartphones. Negative perceptions of the platform, particularly the persisting angst of Symbian enthusiasts who were disappointed with the failings of Nokia's previous N97 flagship device, could hinder uptake of Nokia's new Symbian^3-based products.

Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's executive vice president and general manager of mobile solutions, expressed some annoyance with public perception about Symbian during his keynote on the first day of the event. He complained that critics are unfairly attacking Symbian^3 solely on the basis of its visual similarities to previous versions. He says that such critics are overlooking the substantial improvements that have taken place under the hood that improve the general usefulness of the platform and its suitability for modern smartphones. In order to get a real appreciation for how far Symbian has come, he says that users need to actually try the new devices themselves. He also indicated that the close resemblance to previous versions is intentional and was motivated by a desire to build on the familiarity that existing users have with the classic Symbian S60 user interface.

After spending some time handling the N8 and upcoming C7 and E7 products, I can sympathize with Vanjoki's viewpoint, but I think that his message is one that will likely be lost on regular consumers. During my brief tests during the event, I found that the new version of the operating system is more responsive and handles animated transitions and interactivity better than previous versions. Unlike the clumsy software that launched on the N97, the new devices are relatively smooth during screen rotation and other similar behaviors. Symbian^3 on Nokia's new handsets delivers a very functional mobile software environment, but it lacks the sense of refinement and the uniquely imaginative flourishes that you see in iOS and Android. It's not a bad platform, but it doesn't seem particularly ambitious and doesn't exude the same level of innovation that you see in Nokia's impressive hardware.

One of the major points that Vanjoki raised during the keynotes is that Symbian^3 offers substantially better multitasking than previous versions of Symbian and several major competing platforms. Application switching is relatively smooth, allowing the user to jump from task to task. He claimed that he was running over 20 simultaneous tasks on his phone during the event. This is one area where there seems to be some promising competitive strength. In general, I think that the new Symbian^3 devices (especially the slick E7) feel more like mobile computing devices than phones, which is what I expect from a good smartphone and something that was lacking in older Symbian devices.

It's a step in the right direction, but it's not quite where it needs to be yet, especially in the area of user experience. The Symbian Foundation is supposedly working on some major improvements to the platform's look and feel for version 4, but the bits that we have seen so far don't really encourage a whole lot of confidence yet. The slow progress in that area upstream coupled with Nokia's trepidation about deviating from standard Symbian user interface concepts makes it seem unlikely that we will see a dramatic overhaul.

Green acknowledged that the user interface of the new Symbian products like the N8 isn't entirely shiny enough to catch the eye of US consumers, yet. He says that Nokia is going to work on some incremental cosmetic enhancements, like improving the icons, before the company starts aggressively courting mobile carriers in North America. It seems like he appreciates the weight that US buyers put on first impressions. He says that we can expect to see Nokia delivering more carrier-subsidized smartphones in the US in the future as the company's smartphone strategy accelerates and its products become more competitive with the kind of devices favored by US consumers.

I'm a bit disappointed with the general lack of details about the company's MeeGo strategy, but I'm hopeful that a clearer picture will emerge later this year when they finally unveil the promised MeeGo device. Nokia is doing a lot to move Symbian forward, but I don't think it's really enough to give the company's otherwise-impressive new products an edge over the iPhone and popular Android handsets. I do think, however, that Symbian lovers who were simply turned off by the poor execution of the N97 should give Nokia another chance with the N8 and E7. As far as Symbian devices go, they are really compelling. Keep an eye open for our follow-up article next week about Nokia's development platform strategy and Ovi distribution channel improvements.

One thing that no one seems to be talking about is mid-range phones. Nokia does remain strong in the midrange phones. Phones like the C6-01 will likely go up against midrange Android phones such as the HTC wildfire and in that space Android offerings are not very compelling and iOS is non-existant. In the high end Symbian are perhaps less compelling though the N8 and E7 will probably both appeal to at least some users.

In US, phone pricing is not a big factor simply because the carrier contracts are the major portion of the total cost of ownership of the phone. In a country like India, carrier services are way way cheaper (like 5x to 10x cheaper) than the US so cost of the device is the majority part of the TCO and of course the average income is lower. So mid range smartphones remain a very important segment and in that segment the latest midrange Symbian^3 handsets will surely flourish.

They probably see the technology as too advanced compared to the competition, and want to milk Symbian a little more. Or there's some flaw with MeeGo and they're avoiding bringing attention to it until it's fixed. Unless something comes up, we won't know. But Symbian's doing well, so there's no need to bring in a new operating system just yet. It'd be like bringing in a new XBOX right before the release of Halo Reach that plays more advanced games than the last system and would make the 360 last gen.

If Nokia really does have a device with MeeGo available later this year, shouldn't they give at least some details? I agree that it is a mistake not to discuss MeeGo and what it offers to the end user.

Nokia right now needs to regain its lost mindshare. I suspect that Symbian^3 may be little more than an incremental upgrade to improve usability and is thoroughly behind Android 2.2 or iOS 4 in terms of capability. MeeGo in such a case is critical as it may be Nokia's best chance at trying to regain some of the top.

Symbian is still the most popular smartphone platform on the planet. That's quite an achievement. Symbian should not be ditched. It is the market leader in battery life, as no other smartphone platform comes close. So it has some advantages.

MeeGo on the high-end will be very interesting. The most open-source of all smartphone platforms. Full GPL license. It will work across phones, pads, slates and desktops, with a single OS. It supports both Firefox and Chrome web browsers (the 2 best browsers in the business). MeeGo has many advantages over rivals.

Owning an N900 is a lot like owning an Amiga. Commodore could have ruled the 16 bit market, but they wouldn't give up the cash cow (such as it was) of the C64 series. No company has been able to maintain 2 platforms (except maybe Microsoft) and survive.

The N900 is a fantastic device. Maemo/MeeGo will be great on a tablet. Judging from the number of Linux applications that have been ported, if Nokia was willing to really get behind it and attract developers it could blow everything else out of the water.

Instead we get "cross-platform development" using QT. This stuff never seems to work as well as the hype. And why would you limit a full blown Linux distro like that? Oh, I guess because Google does it?

Of course, the best thing about the N900 was that I got used to slow firmware updates. That comes in handy when I use the GPS on my Samsung Vibrant.

I suspect that Symbian^3 may be little more than an incremental upgrade to improve usability and is thoroughly behind Android 2.2 or iOS 4 in terms of capability.

Architecture-wise Symbian is quite sophisticated. Take for example the fact that Symbian^3 UI is thoroughly GPU accelerated while Android is not (iOS is also accelerated). Symbian is also generally more memory and battery efficient than Android and a lot of work has gone into Symbian^3's networking architecture as well. And Android just now gained features like inbuilt USB tethering (available previously only as apps) which have been around for ages in Symbian and even iOS took a number of years to introduce stuff like folders, copy and paste and USB tethering. (Symbian lacks built in wifi hotspot as far as i know though its available in limited form through a third party app).

From a pure under-the-hood standpoint, Symbian^3 is a good OS, perhaps far better than Android and perhaps on-par with iOS.

There are certainly areas where Symbian is behind. For example, Android has a great notification system. Apps story is also different and I will not argue with that. App development ecosystem has also been less mature and is only now being addressed with Qt. Symbian's default web browser also remains very behind. Nokia has also chosen to put relatively slow processors even in its high end offerings so unfortunately the phone will not feel as snappy as the top end offerings from HTC or Apple etc. But thats not an issue with Symbian but with Nokia.

Architecture-wise Symbian is quite sophisticated. Take for example the fact that Symbian^3 UI is thoroughly GPU accelerated while Android is not (iOS is also accelerated).

Oh dear. If you are running an Android 2.1 device and above then most certainly the OpenGL ES is used to throw stuff to the screen. The application rendering might not be in OpenGL, it's done in software in skia but the screen compositing certainly is. This is on par with Symbian, don't know about iOS.

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Symbian is also generally more memory and battery efficient than Android and a lot of work has gone into Symbian^3's networking architecture as well.

Whatever dude, most power on a mobile device is consumed by two components. The display backlight and the modem baseband. Software overhead is very very slight. As networking architecture... well I'm hoping you aren't suggestion that Symbian network stack is on par with Linux's it ain't.

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And Android just now gained features like inbuilt USB tethering (available previously only as apps) which have been around for ages in Symbian and even iOS took a number of years to introduce stuff like folders, copy and paste and USB tethering. (Symbian lacks built in wifi hotspot as far as i know though its available in limited form through a third party app).

Yeah but it's more important how they were added to Android, basically setting Kconfig flag... in Symbian they had to write it from scratch...

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From a pure under-the-hood standpoint, Symbian^3 is a good OS, perhaps far better than Android and perhaps on-par with iOS.

No it's not. It's complete shit compared to Android - from a pure under-the-hood standpoint. Just compare such a thing as the filesystem handling. Android? Linux VFS with various FSs compiled as needed, robust, proven, scalable, flexible etc. Symbian? F32? Drive letters? FAT? It's like a throw back to the 80s! It doesn't even do direct I/O!

Don't know about iOS.

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There are certainly areas where Symbian is behind. For example, Android has a great notification system. Apps story is also different and I will not argue with that. App development ecosystem has also been less mature and is only now being addressed with Qt. Symbian's default web browser also remains very behind. Nokia has also chosen to put relatively slow processors even in its high end offerings so unfortunately the phone will not feel as snappy as the top end offerings from HTC or Apple etc. But thats not an issue with Symbian but with Nokia.

I'm sorry but Symbian is behind in every area and falling behind further.

What else can Nokia do? Symbian is available now, Meego is vaporware/a technology demo.

And announcing 3 new smartphones, that Nokia probably has to hang their hat on for the next year, that all use Symbian, they HAVE to hype the hell out of them, and that means they have to drop any mention of Meego, at least until sales of these phones starts dropping off.

What else can Nokia do? Symbian is available now, Meego is vaporware/a technology demo.

And announcing 3 new smartphones, that Nokia probably has to hang their hat on for the next year, that all use Symbian, they HAVE to hype the hell out of them, and that means they have to drop any mention of Meego, at least until sales of these phones starts dropping off.

If MeeGo were even close to being production ready they would at least show off some video of it. Its complete absence means that it's not close to ready. There's no way we'll see MeeGo hardware this year.

It makes no difference how polished the OS itself is when there is no app store ecosystem, and no standards compliant modern browser. Symbian is dead in the water. If Nokia were smart they would be transitioning to Android and WP7. Instead, I have a feeling they are going to flounder for a year or two while their marketshare plummets and their margins get lower as they are only able to sell the low end phones.

It makes no difference how polished the OS itself is when there is no app store ecosystem, and no standards compliant modern browser. Symbian is dead in the water. If Nokia were smart they would be transitioning to Android and WP7. Instead, I have a feeling they are going to flounder for a year or two while their marketshare plummets and their margins get lower as they are only able to sell the low end phones.

Apparently you haven't actually used maemo & vanilla meego much at all then?There's a bucket-load of apps now, more than you'd ever need/want. And one man's "standards compliant browser" is another's ass bucket.The browser options are arguably the best around....

It makes no difference how polished the OS itself is when there is no app store ecosystem, and no standards compliant modern browser. Symbian is dead in the water. If Nokia were smart they would be transitioning to Android and WP7. Instead, I have a feeling they are going to flounder for a year or two while their marketshare plummets and their margins get lower as they are only able to sell the low end phones.

FYI, there will be a new browser available before the end of the year.

I will be buying the N8 when it is released, it looks like the device for me! Until the E7 or N9 comes out, and when that happens I'll give the N8 to my girlfriend. =)

I use nokia n70 running symbian s60 3rd edition.I surf the internet,check email,download hollywood movies,use mobile rapidshare,use mobile torrent,listen to good quality songs and fm radio,upload my contacts and images and videos to the backup on a website,unzip files,check news and download youtube videos all on my symbian.Now why should i think that my nokia phone is any less than android or apple?

No company has been able to maintain 2 platforms (except maybe Microsoft) and survive.

Nokia has maintained 2 platforms for years - s40 and s60. Maemo/MeeGo is a 3rd one.

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Don't know about iOS.

That's a shame, because you evidently don't know much about Symbian or Android either. Or power consumption on mobile devices, for that matter. In fact to be so utterly devoid of any factual knowledge on the topic you are commenting on, I'd say you are fairly young. A teenager, in fact.

If you were right and the CPU chewed nothing, I guess all that effort to by Google to get wave locks into the kernel so they can minimise power consumption by apps was pointless because there is no problem.

Tethering involves a little bit more than "just enabling the USB devices in the kernel". Clearly the USB devices have always been enabled, otherwise Android would not able to use its USB ports at all. It seems you think you just route the phone's modem Hayes AT interface to the USB port. But here the thing: there is no traditional modem in the phone, let alone one with an AT interface. That is all faked in software in the phone. And behind that modem is supposed to be something that supports PPP. Only problem is PPP doesn't get sent over the air, so that has to be faked as well - again by software in the phone. None of this is supplied by the Linux kernel. And this all has to happen in parallel with handling concurrent voice calls. Well it does on Symbian anyway.

And you complete the trifecta with filesystem handling. You do know why mobile devices, be they cameras, music players or phones, use FAT right? Sigh - ok, ok obviously not. They use it because every OS out there can handle FAT. Only one can use Ext4, and it is used by less than 1% of PC's. No device designer in the right mind would use any of the esoteric file systems you mention on an externally facing drive. Speaking of filesystems. Did you know that Symbian included a fully ACID SQL database every application can use? Of course you didn't - but you do now. And of course you know that the Linux kernel doesn't provide anything like that.

However, you are right in suspecting things aren't quite as rosy as painted by the post you are responding to. Programming on Symbian is a whole new world of pain. But in exchange for that pain Symbian gives you best memory consumption, the power power consumption of any smartphone out there, bar none. That is because 20 years ago when Psion designed it, all available mobile platforms were horribly memory constrained, underpowered 16 bit CPU's. The guy you are responding to basically said that, and he is right. He just didn't mention the downsides; the compromises Psion had to make to make Symbian leanest mobile OS currently in use.

MeeGo isn't vaporware. Anyone with a netbook can download and try MeeGo 1.0 right now.

Exactly. All the software is there. You can even participate in the development if you want.

The reason that Meego was not talked about before is that Android's rise in popularity in the USA changed the rules. Symbian may be popular outside the USA, but high end phones are what matters in the USA and that is the market they are targetting with Meego.

Google just annilated the USA market in short order. Android curb-stomped WinMo, giggled as it blasted past iOS, and is now within feet of braining RIM with a very large rock. Poor Palm is now just unintentional road kill.

For Meego to establish a prescence in this market it is going to have be something exceptional, which it is not, yet.

I believe people are confused with MeeGO and Symbian. MeeGo is not meant to replace Symbian.MeeGo is for mobile computing, Symbian for "smartphones". There is no such thing as a "smartphone", it is actually for mobile phones.Symbian is currently the most advanced phone OS available on the market and it seems it will remain the most advanced in the foreseeable future.MeeGo is a mobile computing OS that provides a phone application. It is meant for tablets with 3G access and large screen like the N900. This OS is perfect for web browsing, instant messaging, gaming, social networking, office working but it it sucks as a phone OS.

Nokia is going to maintain both OSes. QT will be the bridge between the two and all other platforms.

Instead we get "cross-platform development" using QT. This stuff never seems to work as well as the hype. And why would you limit a full blown Linux distro like that? Oh, I guess because Google does it?

No company has been able to maintain 2 platforms (except maybe Microsoft) and survive.

Nokia has maintained 2 platforms for years - s40 and s60. Maemo/MeeGo is a 3rd one.

Actually even more. S30 is used on the ultra-cheap black and white screen phones. I guess it has pretty much fallen off the bottom these days though. I guess they are still making these sub $20 handsets for Africa and India.

Some people here suggest that Nokia should drop Symbian and go MeeGo alone. Some even advise that even MeeGo should be dropped in favor of GOOG's and MSFT's OS...

I just have one question: how would you then transition Nokia's bread&butter non-smartphones to something more advanced?

MeeGo is meant for high-end devices, while Symbian will trickle down to the vast millions of devices sold all over the world.

Exactly. I wish I could smack Gruber at DaringFireball and all the other commentators around the head a few times with a very heavy clue stick. They all seem to think Nokia should be only competing against the iPhone. They are not, their plan is go make smartphones available for everyone, not a few rich white people in the US.

How do you get Meego to run on a $60 hardware platform? That is what Symbian is for. Contrary to popular opinion Symbian is going to be more widespread, not less. It will be taking over from S40 and moving smartphone features down to feature phone prices.

How do you get Meego to run on a $60 hardware platform? That is what Symbian is for. Contrary to popular opinion Symbian is going to be more widespread, not less. It will be taking over from S40 and moving smartphone features down to feature phone prices.

At the same time that they announced the unveiling of the N900 last year this company also announced Maemo was dead & now Meego was the new hotness. Great way to make sure your great new product is still born. What utter tools..Nokia is facing steadily diminishing profits selling lots of low profit low end handsets.Their performance at NW indicates they intend to keep right on shipping low end low profit handsets using the dated & steadily less popular Symbian.For years now since the unveiling of the iPhone they have been promising & failing to deliver.This is just more of the same.Expect their share price to continue to slide as investors write them off as all talk & no substance.

"I do think, however, that Symbian lovers who were simply turned off by the poor execution of the N97 should give Nokia another chance"

Why?Why would people intentionally opt again for what is in all likely-hood just a warm over of the pathetically inadequate Symbian OS we have all come to despise?They have had literally years to put together a coherent product strategy & missed every one of their own deadlines.

[/quote] Symbian's default web browser also remains very behind. Nokia has also chosen to put relatively slow processors even in its high end offerings so unfortunately the phone will not feel as snappy as the top end offerings from HTC or Apple etc. But thats not an issue with Symbian but with Nokia.[/quote]

The Symbian^3 web browser issue has been addressed. The devices will ship with a QtWebkit browser. The new QtWebkit browser has been developed in collaboration with the KDE project. Remember that Webkit started out as a fork of KDE's KHTML. Along with KDE, KHTML uses the Qt UI framework, the same as Symbian^3 and MeeGo. http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit

I will ignore everything that davidontheinternet said because he is obviously an Android troll.

At the same time that they announced the unveiling of the N900 last year this company also announced Maemo was dead & now Meego was the new hotness. Great way to make sure your great new product is still born. What utter tools..Nokia is facing steadily diminishing profits selling lots of low profit low end handsets.Their performance at NW indicates they intend to keep right on shipping low end low profit handsets using the dated & steadily less popular Symbian.For years now since the unveiling of the iPhone they have been promising & failing to deliver.This is just more of the same.Expect their share price to continue to slide as investors write them off as all talk & no substance.

Actually, Meego is not that different from Maemo than you seem to think. It is still GNU. You don't seem to get what MeeGo is about. And Symbian is not "steadily less popular", it's by far the most popular "smartphone" OS in the world. You talk like an investor that don't understand the technology. Who cares about The share price and Nokia's profits?

I am not really surprised. They just released a big lineup of Symbian3 devices. A really really bad time to hype up an alternative operating system ;-). And Symbian 3 actually looks very nice. One thing that would interest me is how the browser is? A good internet browser is possibly the most important feature of a phone to me know (how times have changed)

Strange to talk up MeeGo first, and then be unclear on their future strategy with Symbian.

Do they think that will lead to more or less doubt about purchasing current Symbian-based phones or not, when their customers won't be sure if they'll discard Symbian soon in the future?

Sometimes, it's best to just not talk about forthcoming "criticially important" operating systems when you still aren't marketing them.

I think what a lot of people miss is that Qt is the platform, Symbian and MeeGo are the method of delivery. The same apps and games will work on Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian without needing to be rewritten. These same apps benefit the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem.

There are no separate Symbian developers and MeeGo developers, they are all Qt developers. Write once, deploy everywhere.

MeeGo is GNU/Linux developed in the OPEN and hosted by The Linux Foundation.

Android is all HYPE and the definition of lipstick on a pig.

It claims to be Linux yet none of its apps work on Linux or benefit the GNU/Linux ecosystem due to running a private fork of the upstream kernel. It claims to be Java yet none of its apps work in standard Java. It claims to be Open yet the development happens behind closed doors until Google hands the code to handset makers.

Android is the new Microsoft and an enemy of the GNU/Linux ecosystem and Open Standards.

It has followed Microsoft’s tactics:

1. Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard. 2. Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the ‘simple’ standard. 3. Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

Let me connect the dots for ya there little fella.. because if Nokia goes 'poof' so does all the effort a developer puts in on their lame ass platform.

While profits are >= 0, Nokia is not going to go poof and even if profit <0 Nokia won't vanish like that.Nokia has 140000 employees that won't vanish. Both Symbian and Meego are free software and won't vanish in the next decade. Meego is also supported by Intel.Symbian is the #1 "smartphone" OS in the world and is being sold by hundreds of millions copies each quarter. And Nokia is increasing its lead by sacrificing profits and lowering costs even more. That is what third party developers should care about.Actually you have far more risk that Apple changes App Store's policy than Nokia going 'poof' in the next decade. And anyway 10 years from now your app will be obsolete.

Any comments on this one. - I use nokia n70 running symbian s60 3rd edition.I surf the internet,check email,download hollywood movies,use mobile rapidshare,use mobile torrent,listen to good quality songs and fm radio,upload my contacts and images and videos to the backup on a website,unzip files,check news and download youtube videos all on my symbian.Now why should i think that my nokia phone is any less than android or apple?